Ella Baker was a freedom fighter
And she taught us how to fight (Say what)
They ain't never show no love
Like the world against us
Being born with no luck
In mourning and stuck
Fight the power like Chuck
Raise against the machines
And not giving fucks
Pain and sorrow, once love
We know war on the good drugs
Mean war on Black thugs
Politicians disrupt
Ain't no help from above
They don't wanna see us
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Let my niggas grow
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody fists
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody go
Up, up, up, up, up, up
They don't wanna see us
Y'all need to stop being racist
Y'all need to stop being anti-Black
Y'all need to stop killing black people
Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter
We right here, we standin' up, we ain't goin' nowhere, c'mon
Uh
I got bodily autonomy
And it's policy is people over property
Treat us like pieces of monopoly
One day you'll be nothing but the rich to eat
Uh, defund the police
Abolish the prisons, or don't speak a word to me
Stop ICE and let 'em all free
Let the kids be, end intersex surgeries
The dollar that enslaved us cannot save us
The cop that killed Mike Brown is not a savior
Y'all be treatin' laws like religion
I ain't come here to play woke musician
I don't say we gon' win for the listens
Niggas tired of all the Twitter feed lynchings
Free up all my trans siblings in prisons
Why they steady punchin' down
They don't wanna see us
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Let my niggas grow
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody fists
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody go
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Black womens' lives
Black trans lives (Say what)
Black girl lives
Black intersex lives (Say what)
Black queer lives
Black Muslim lives
Black disabled lives
Black mens' lives (Say what)
Everybody rise
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Let my niggas grow
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody fists
Up, up, up, up, up, up
Everybody go
Up, up, up, up, up, up
I am the revolution
And the revolution don't stop
I am change
Soon we will make a change that will change it all
I am courage
Courage to move the masses forward
Against those that will sit and stay and not move
I am movement
Moving all to a place where we will be judged
By the content of our character and not the color of our skin
I am my skin
Color of my people who toiled the land of America and made it great
I am great
Great because I dedicate myself to change
I dedicate myself to my people
I dedicate myself to the movement
I dedicate myself to the revolution
And the revolution don't stop